This Day in Auto History: 11.16.1888 Taizo Ishida of Toyota is born in Kosugai, Chita, Aichi, Japan 11.16.1911 Ettore Bugatti signs a contract with Peugeot to produce his 30th design as the Peugeot Bebe 11.16.1934 David Perry Williams of the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company is born in Detroit, MI 11.16.1937 Ferdinand Porsche is issued a United States patent for his torsion-bar suspension 11.16.1955 Leonard Dyer, inventor of the “H-pattern” gearshift gate and other automobile improvements, dies in Winter Park, FL at age 82

Source: Automobile History Day By Day, by Douglas A. Wick